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COVID-19 Pandemic In The Northern Territory
The COVID-19 pandemic in the Northern Territory is part of the ongoing worldwide pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). Timeline 2020 On 18 March, the Northern Territory government announced an economic stimulus package of A$60 million. On 24 March 2020, the Northern Territory (NT) government introduced strict border controls, with anyone arriving from abroad or interstate being required to self-isolate for 14 days. The only exemption would be due to health and emergency services, defence and policing, flight crews and freight, and based on "compassionate grounds". NT Police Commissioner Jamie Chalker said that the local police and government were likely to impose these measures until September. Anyone arriving in NT had to declare that they would isolate for 14 days and let the authorities know of their location during that period at the point of entry. Failure to comply with the new regulations could re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. In January 2020, the disease spread worldwide, resulting in the COVID-19 pandemic. The symptoms of COVID‑19 can vary but often include fever, fatigue, cough, breathing difficulties, anosmia, loss of smell, and ageusia, loss of taste. Symptoms may begin one to fourteen days incubation period, after exposure to the virus. At least a third of people who are infected asymptomatic, do not develop noticeable symptoms. Of those who develop symptoms noticeable enough to be classified as patients, most (81%) develop mild to moderate symptoms (up to mild pneumonia), while 14% develop severe symptoms (dyspnea, hypoxia (medical), hypoxia, or more than 50% lung involvement on imaging), and 5% develop critical symptoms (respiratory failure, shock (circulatory), shock, or organ dysfunction, multiorgan dysfunction). Older people have a higher risk of developing severe symptoms. Some complicati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heatherton, Victoria
Heatherton is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 19 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Kingston local government area. Heatherton recorded a population of 2,826 at the . The suburb has a low population for a metropolitan suburb. It is predominantly open space: market garden, golf courses (the Kingston Heath Golf Club and the Capital Golf Club) and the large Karkarook Park. History As part of the Melbourne Sandbelt, the area has been subject to significant sand mining in the past, though many extraction sites have now passed to other uses. Heatherton Post Office opened on 6 May 1885, but closed in 1973. Today The Kingston Centre, a major regional Aged Care and Rehabilitation facility, is located on Warrigal Road. The site was originally the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum (where construction began in 1909). A narrow gauge tramway was constructed from the railway at Cheltenham to the building site. A large proport ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darwin Festival
The Darwin Festival, founded as the Bougainvillea Festival in 1979 and named Festival of Darwin from 1996 to 2002, is an annual arts festival in Darwin, Northern Territory. It celebrates the multicultural aspects of the Northern Territory lifestyle. The festival is held over 18 days in August and comprises a series of events including outdoor concerts, workshops, theatre, dance music, comedy, cabaret, film and visual arts. The Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair is held under the umbrella of the festival, and the Garma Festival, NATSIAA art awards, and National Indigenous Music Awards are within the festival period. In 2024, Darwin Festival is scheduled for the 8-25 August. History 19th century Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin has a tradition of street parades and festival events dating back to early European settlement, following the issuing of Letters Patent History of the Northern Territory, annexing the Northern Territory to South Australia, 1863. The Township of Palmerston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RAAF Base Tindal
RAAF Base Tindal also known as Tindal Air Base is a Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) military air base and civil aviation airfield located east southeast of the town of Katherine, Northern Territory in Australia. The base is currently home to No. 75 Squadron and a number of non-flying units, and also hosts the civilian Katherine Tindal Airport (also known as the Katherine Tindal Civilian Airport). First constructed in 1942, it was refurbished in the late 1960s as a bare base capable of being utilised when required. It was opened as a permanently manned RAAF base in 1989. As of 2024, the base is under upgrades largely funded by the United States Air Force to allow Tindal Air Base to host larger aircraft, most notably a total of 6 Boeing B-52 Stratofortress nuclear-capable bombers of the United States. The base is well known as hosting the most advanced American aircraft that enter Australia, and during the Middle Eastern crisis, Tindal provided services to the United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wagait Beach
Wagait Beach is a locality approximately 8 km west of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, on the opposite side of the harbour. It makes up the Wagait Shire local government area. The population was 422 in 2021. Wagait Beach is on the north coast of the Cox Peninsula, which forms the western side of Darwin Harbour. It is part of the Hundred of Bray, as surveyed by George Goyder in 1869–70. History In 1942, after the Bombing of Darwin, a military base was established at Waugite Point on the north east of the Cox Peninsula, and a huge observation tower was constructed, with a communications bunker underneath it. Waugaite tower was destroyed by Cyclone Tracy in 1974. The precise origin of the name of the community is unclear, but the beach adjacent to Wagait Point is called Wagait Beach. One source claims that the community was named after the tower, which is unconvincing as the tower was named after Waugite (Wagait) Point and so clearly is not the origin of the name. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dundee Beach, Northern Territory
Dundee Beach is a locality in the Northern Territory of Australia, located approximately southwest of the territory capital of Darwin City, Northern Territory, Darwin. The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reported Dundee Beach's population to be 207. Geography Dundee Beach consists of land bounded by the coast of Fog Bay (Northern Territory), Fog Bay in the west and a subsidiary inlet of Bynoe Harbour in the east and the waters to the west of the coastline for a distance of . Name Dundee Beach and the other two nearby localities prefixed with the name "Dundee" are named after the Subdivision (land), sub-divisions with these names. The name "Dundee" is believed to be derived from the 1986 film, ''Crocodile Dundee''. The boundaries for Dundee Beach were gazetted on 29 October 1997 with the gazettal being revoked on 3 April 2007 with new boundaries being gazetted on 4 April 2007. History Development in the area began in the 1990s, originally as a weeken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Territory Day (Northern Territory, Australia)
Territory Day is a holiday widely celebrated in the Northern Territory of Australia on 1 July that commemorates the territory achieving self-government in 1978. The holiday has been famously commemorated with fireworks since the early 1980s. Popularly known as Cracker Night, Territorians are provided five hours to legally blow up fireworks without needing a permit or special training, the only instance of its kind in Australia. Background After decades of efforts to achieve self-government, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pledged in 1974 to grant the territory self-rule, which went into effect on 1 July 1978. The implementation of self-government was considered significant as it allowed for Territorians to purchase freehold land. This proved a boon to commercial development in the territory, allowing for the construction of hotels, casinos, and other tourist attractions. History of the holiday On 1 July 1978, over 6,000 Territorians gathered at the Darwin Cenotaph in celebrat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Litchfield, Northern Territory
The Litchfield Council is a Local government in Australia, local government area of the Northern Territory of Australia on the eastern and southeastern outskirts of the Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin-Palmerston, Northern Territory, Palmerston urban area. The municipality covers an area of , and was created by the Government of the Northern Territory, Northern Territory government on 6 September 1985. Geography The Litchfield Municipality is bounded by the Adelaide River to the east, Van Diemen Gulf and the Coomalie Shire in the south and the City of Darwin and City of Palmerston to the northwest. The Stuart Highway, Stuart and Arnhem Highway, Arnhem Highways run through the Litchfield Municipality. Most of the Municipality is rural or rural-residential in character. The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population of the shire is 12.4%. Current day service provision Despite the first elected body's original ethos of the 3Rs in the early 1980s, Litchfield Council went ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delta Variant
The Delta variant (B.1.617.2) was a variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. It was first detected in India on 5 October 2020. The Delta variant was named on 31 May 2021 and had spread to over 179 countries by 22 November 2021. The World Health Organization (WHO) indicated in June 2021 that the Delta variant was becoming the dominant strain globally. It has mutations in the gene encoding the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein causing the substitutions T478K, P681R and L452R, which are known to affect transmissibility of the virus as well as whether it can be neutralised by antibodies for previously circulating variants of the COVID-19 virus. In August 2021, Public Health England (PHE) reported secondary attack rate in household contacts of non-travel or unknown cases for Delta to be 10.8% ''vis-à-vis'' 10.2% for the Alpha variant; the case fatality rate for those 386,835 people with Delta is 0.3%, where 46% of the cases and 6% of the deaths are unvaccinated and below ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanami Mine
The Granites, also known as the Tanami Mine, is a gold mine in the Tanami Desert of the Northern Territory of Australia. It has been operated by Newmont Mining since 2002. The mine is about north-west of Alice Springs. History The first European person to find and recognise gold in the Tanami Desert was Allan Arthur Davidson, who arrived in the area in 1898 and continued prospecting until 1901. He took the name Tanami for the region from local Aboriginal people who visited his camp. "On inquiry elearned that the native name of the rockholes (from hich the party obtained waterwas Tanami, and that they "never died," he said. Davidson showed the gold specimens to these Aboriginal people, who recognised it and described "mobs of similar stone to the east, together with a large creek containing plenty of water and fish. This they said was "two days' sleep to the south of east". In 1936 anthropologist Charles P. Mountford, during an expedition with organised by the Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bondi COVID-19 Cluster
The COVID-19 pandemic in New South Wales, Australia was part of the COVID-19 pandemic, worldwide pandemic of the coronavirus disease 2019 () caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (). The first confirmed case in New South Wales was identified on 19 January 2020 in Sydney where three travellers returning from Wuhan, Hubei, China, tested positive for the virus. , there had been over 1,863,186 confirmed cases in NSW: 1,149,142 confirmed cases from PCR testing, and nearly 714,044 positive COVID-19 rapid antigen test, rapid antigen tests (RAT) since mid-January 2022. 17,509,209 vaccines have been administered. Government response Premier Gladys Berejiklian formed a "war cabinet" to make decisions in relation to the pandemic. Members included herself, Treasurer of New South Wales, Treasurer Dominic Perrottet, Minister for Health and Medical Research (New South Wales), Minister for Health and Medical Research Brad Hazzard and Minister for Police and Emergency Servi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine, Northern Territory
Katherine is a town in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is situated on the Katherine River, after which it is named, southeast of Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin. The Northern Territory#Cities and towns, fourth largest settlement in the Territory, it is known as the place where "The outback meets the tropics". Katherine had an urban population of 5,980 at the 2021 Australia Census. Katherine is also the closest major town to RAAF Base Tindal, located southeast, and provides education, health, local government services and employment opportunities for the families of Defence personnel stationed there. In the , the base had a residential population of 857, with only around 20% of the workforce engaged in employment outside of defence, the majority commuting to work in Katherine. Katherine is also the central hub of the great "Savannah Way" which stretches from Cairns in north Queensland to Broome, Western Australia, Broome in the Kimberley (Western Australia), Kimberl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
